UEA: reports of further hacked emails

Nov 22, 2011, 19:31pm By Claire Wood

Fresh emails between leading climate scientists have been released online, according to reports in the national press.

With less than a week to a UN climate summit, the UEA has responded, suggesting they’ve been published to “cause maximum disruption to the imminent climate talks”.In a statement the UEA said: “While we have had only a limited opportunity to look at this latest post of 5,000 emails, we have no evidence of a recent breach of our systems. If genuine, (the sheer volume of material makes it impossible to confirm at present that they are all genuine) these emails have the appearance of having been held back after the theft of data and emails in 2009 to be released at a time designed to cause maximum disruption to the imminent international climate talks.

As in 2009, extracts from emails have been taken completely out of context. Following the previous release of emails scientists highlighted by the controversy have been vindicated by independent review, and claims that their science cannot or should not be trusted are entirely unsupported. They, the University and the wider research community have stood by the science throughout, and continue to do so.”

In what became known as ‘climategate’, the scientists at the UEA were cleared of any wrong-doing in 2010.

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